Moriz Probst Explained

Moriz Probst
Birth Date:1 October 1867
Birth Place:Deutschlandsberg
Death Place:Vienna
Nationality:Austrian
Occupation:psychiatrist and neuroanatomist

Moriz Probst (1 October 1867 in Deutschlandsberg - 21 March 1923 in Vienna) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neuroanatomist. He is best known for first description of so-called Probst bundles, the anomalous brain structures found in dysgenesis of corpus callosum.

He studied medicine in Graz, after graduation he worked as an assistant in Neuropsychiatric Clinic in Graz under Gabriel Anton. Later he was affiliated with Wiener Irrenanstalt. Since 1900 he practised as forensic psychiatrist in Vienna. He worked also in Landesirrenanstalt neuroanatomical laboratory.

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